Papers of William T. Bovie, 1926-1949 (bulk).
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Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939
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Harvey Williams Cushing was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 8, 1869. He graduated from Yale College in 1891 and in 1895 received his M.D. and A.M. degrees from the Harvard Medical School. He served on the staff of the Johns Hopkins University Hospital from 1901 to 1912, where he devoted himself to neurological surgery. In 1912 he was appointed professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and in 1913 surgeon-in-chief of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, posts which he held until 1932. During W...
Bovie, William T., 1882-1958
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Bovie (Harvard, Ph.D. 1914) was a research fellow to the Harvard Cancer Commission from 1914 to 1920; he then taught biophysics at Harvard Medical School until he became professor of biophysics and head of that newly formed department at Northwestern University in 1927. Together with Harvey Cushing, he helped develop electrosurgery; Bovie's electrosurgical unit was first used in the operating room at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital by Cushing in 1926. From 1929 to 1939 Bovie's principal activities w...
